Billie Eilish
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This Billie Eilish trivia quiz has 184 free questions with answers and follows her from a homeschooled kid in Highland Park uploading Ocean Eyes to SoundCloud, through the bedroom-recorded debut album that swept the Grammys, the James Bond theme, Happier Than Ever, the Barbie ballad and Hit Me Hard and Soft. It covers Finneas, her family, her records and firsts, tours and festivals, and the songs' stories, from the Invisalign click on Bad Guy to the monster under the bed in Bury a Friend. It is made for fans who know the lyrics and want to test the deep cuts. About a third of the questions are easy, a third medium and the rest are hard enough to separate casual listeners from people who have watched the documentary twice. Every answer has been checked against a primary source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Which of these is one of Billie Eilish's real middle names?
Pirate
Pirate was her brother's doing: Finneas, then four, insisted on the name, and it stuck, giving her the full name Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell.
Q 02Billie Eilish grew up in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?
Highland Park
Eilish grew up in Highland Park, northeast Los Angeles, where she and Finneas recorded her debut album in his bedroom in the family home.
Q 03How were Billie Eilish and her older brother Finneas educated as children?
Homeschooled
Homeschooled by their parents, Eilish and Finneas were free to follow whatever interested them, from art and dance to acting; their mother also taught both of them the basics of songwriting.
Q 04Eilish has said she was diagnosed with which condition at age 11?
Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome was diagnosed when she was 11; she has said the most common reaction to her tics is laughter, because people assume she is trying to be funny, and that it leaves her offended.
Q 05What ended Eilish's dance training in 2016?
A growth plate injury
A growth plate injury ended it: she ruptured the growth plate in her hip in a class with the most advanced dancers and had to quit dance altogether, which turned her towards recording.
Q 06Eilish's debut single 'Ocean Eyes', written and produced by her brother Finneas, was released in 2015 on which platform?
SoundCloud
SoundCloud got the song in November 2015 with a free download link, so that one person could fetch it; instead it went viral almost overnight and the music industry came calling.
Q 07Why did Billie Eilish and Finneas first record 'Ocean Eyes'?
Her dance teacher wanted a song to choreograph
Her dance teacher wanted a song to choreograph a routine to, so the siblings recorded one for him; the track made for a dance class went viral almost overnight.
Q 08Justin Lubliner signed Billie Eilish in 2016 to The Darkroom, his imprint at which major label?
Interscope Records
Interscope Records houses The Darkroom, where Lubliner spent months planning her debut album's rollout and refused to pick one focus track, letting each new song bring in its own fans.
Q 09Eilish's 2017 song 'Bored' appeared on the soundtrack of which Netflix series?
13 Reasons Why
13 Reasons Why used 'Bored' on its first-season soundtrack in March 2017, before her debut EP was out; a year later she was back with a duet written for the show's second season.
Q 10What was the title of Eilish's 2017 debut EP?
Don't Smile at Me
Don't Smile at Me is named, Eilish said, for the people who tell girls to smile because they look prettier that way; she refused to look like anything except what she is.
Q 11Eilish's debut album title asks 'When We All Fall Asleep...' what?
Where Do We Go?
Her 2019 debut album is When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?; Eilish said it was inspired partly by lucid dreaming and night terrors.
Q 12Billie Eilish's song 'My Strange Addiction' samples dialogue from which sitcom?
The Office
The Office episode 'Threat Level Midnight' supplied the clips, and every cast member heard on the track had to approve them; B. J. Novak said yes, then called the song a banger.
Q 13'Bury a Friend' is sung from the perspective of what?
A monster under the bed
A monster under the bed sings it, and Eilish said anything could be that monster, even someone you love so much that it is taking over your life.
Q 21In 2020 'No Time to Die' made Eilish the youngest artist yet to do what?
Record a 007 title song
Record a 007 title song: she and Finneas had been telling their team for years that they wanted to make one, and had asked to be put forward for the film.
Q 22Which film composer provided the orchestration on 'No Time to Die'?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer had been sent themes by several acts and said he couldn't get past the intro of the others; he chose the siblings' demo as the one, then added its string orchestration.
Q 23'No Time to Die' was the third straight 007 theme to win what?
Academy Award for Best Original Song
Q 14What inspired Eilish to write 'Xanny'?
Friends getting sick from drinking at a party
Friends getting sick from drinking at a party stayed with her: one was throwing up and nobody was fazed, and Eilish said she wondered how that had become normal.
Q 15Billie Eilish's debut album opens with the sound of her removing what?
Her Invisalign brace
Her Invisalign brace comes out with a slurp on the intro track; Finneas had so many recordings of her removing it before takes that he told her it would be her signature sound.
Q 16'Bad Guy' hit number one in the US by ending the record 19-week run of which song?
Old Town Road
Old Town Road had ruled for a record 19 weeks when 'Bad Guy' passed it in August 2019; Lil Nas X tweeted his congratulations and told Eilish she deserved it.
Q 17Which singer joined Eilish on a remix of 'Bad Guy'?
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber was her childhood idol, and the remix's cover is an old photo of a young Eilish happily surrounded by posters of him.
Q 18Which R&B singer duetted with Eilish on the 2018 ballad 'Lovely'?
Khalid
'Lovely', released in April 2018, pairs Eilish with Khalid; it was written for the second season of a Netflix drama and went multi-platinum.
Q 19Which award did Finneas win in his own right at the 2020 Grammys?
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical went to Finneas for an album made in a bedroom at home; the label had first tried moving the siblings into a real studio with veteran writers, and Billie hated it.
Q 20Which Billie Eilish single is about her brother Finneas always having her back?
Everything I Wanted
Everything I Wanted began with a nightmare in which nobody cared that she was gone; the song became a tribute to Finneas, whose chorus promises that no one can hurt her while he is there.
The Academy Award for Best Original Song went to 'No Time to Die' in 2022, after Adele's 'Skyfall' and Sam Smith's 'Writing's on the Wall'; before that run, no Bond theme had ever won it.
Q 24'What Was I Made For?' was written for which 2023 film?
Barbie
Barbie's director Greta Gerwig showed Eilish and Finneas a rough cut of the film; stuck with writer's block until then, they broke it the next day by writing from the doll's point of view.
Q 25Before 'What Was I Made For?', which film song last won the Grammy for Song of the Year?
My Heart Will Go On
My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion's Titanic ballad, won Song of the Year in 1999; film songs then went 25 years without the prize, and even 'Lose Yourself' and 'Shallow' lost when they were nominated.
Q 26Which Happier Than Ever song has a self-directed video of Eilish and friends at a sleepover?
Lost Cause
Lost Cause celebrates being over an ex, so Eilish, directing herself, staged it as a carefree sleepover: Twister, snacks and dancing with a group of friends.
Q 27The video for 'Therefore I Am' was shot in an empty version of what?
A shopping mall
A shopping mall, the Glendale Galleria just outside Los Angeles, is hers alone in the video: she skips past the shops and helps herself to a doughnut, a pretzel, fries and lemonade.
Q 28In March 2021 Eilish set a record for the fastest Instagram post to reach a million likes with a photo of what?
Her new blonde hair
Her new blonde hair drew a million likes in about six minutes, beating a mark set by Selena Gomez; weeks later Eilish broke her own record with a magazine cover.
Q 29Eilish's 2021 concert film 'Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles' was filmed where?
The Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl was filmed without an audience because of COVID-19; between songs an animated Eilish drives around Los Angeles, so the film is part concert and part cartoon.
Q 30Eilish's 2021 documentary The World's a Little Blurry was released on which streaming service?
Apple TV+
Apple TV+ took the film off the market in late 2019, more than a year before anyone could see it, and released it in February 2021 on the same day it reached cinemas.